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Some resources for more complete information on the Dead Sea Scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [6] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [7] and the Leon Levy Collection, [8] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for ...
The Great Psalms Scroll, also referred to as 11Q5, is the most substantial and well preserved manuscript of Psalms of the thirty-seven discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran caves. It is one of six Psalms manuscripts discovered in Cave 11 .
The player characters go on a quest to find the fabled Soul Gem, a legendary artifact of great power. [2] They must gather the four parts of a key granting them entrance to the Ghost Tower. [3] Inverness was the fortress of the great wizard Galap-Dreidel, whose magic raised a great stone tower within a formidable keep. The tower was built to ...
Passage in Secret Caverns. Secret Cave is part of a larger cave system, the Secret-Benson Cave System, which consists of 6,200 feet (1,900 m) of passage. [4] [5]The show cave starts at the discovery entrance, which has mostly been sealed with concrete with a small opening to allow bats to enter and exit the cave, although bat populations has been low since an outbreak of White-nose syndrome in ...
Some subterranean fiction involves traveling to the Earth's center and finding either a hollow Earth or Earth's molten core. Planetary scientist David J. Stevenson suggested sending a probe to the core as a thought experiment. [1] [2] Humans have drilled over 12 kilometers (about 8 miles) in the Sakhalin-I project. [3]
The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others.Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed with about 1 percent tin, although no metallic copper remained in the strips; the action of the centuries had been to convert the metal into brittle oxide. [1]
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel where two clans live deep underground and are descendants from humans who escaped an old war. City of the First Time (1975) by G.J. Barrett. British survivors of an atomic holocaust venture downward into the Earth through a series of caves and encounter two other races, survivals of previous extinctions.
Moaning Caverns is a solutional cave located in the Calaveras County, California, near Vallecito, California in the heart of the state's Gold Country. It is developed in marble of the Calaveras Formation. It was discovered in modern times by gold miners in 1851, but it has long been known as an interesting geological feature by prehistoric peoples.